Quotes About Focus

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

Genius is the art of taking pains

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Never depart from the way of martial arts.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

More matter with less art.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.